Some cool web pages


Collections of favorites like this are always difficult to make and dangerous to navigate. The Web is such a dynamic entity that links can disappear overnight, or perfectly good pages get destroyed by poor editing or smothered by advertising. But these ones are good today, and I hope you find them as enjoyable as I do.

In the Public Domain
An interesting collection of essays by Greg Goebel, a former HPite and a real Renaissance man. He's an engineer and writer like me. Greg has covered a wide range of topics since he started his email newsletter, Vectors, in the mid 1980s. Greg published the last issue of Vectors in February 2007. I hope he continues with his website.

This is True
A humorous collection of "weird news," compiled and rewritten by Randy Cassingham. Randy started his weekly email newsletter, This Just In, in 1994. He changed the title to This Is True in 1998. Whatever it's called, True has proven to be very successful, popular, and profitable. The This is True website appeared in 1995. You can sign up to receive the monthly This is True newsletter on the front page of his website.

Courage and Confidence
Actually, what you want to do is subscribe to Dr. TC North's EnCOURAGEment, a brief motivational thought that gives you a weekly boost in both courage and confidence for the week. I became acquainted with Dr. TC North through his daughter, one of my math students. TC specializes in motivating and encouraging people to take the chance to become their best. TC's business, Catalyst High Performance, started out helping athletes become successful, and expanded to the point that he now deals mostly with entrepreneurs, leadership teams and sales professionals. But his weekly EnCOURAGEment is useful for anybody, even you. Tell him I sent you.

WordReference.com
The best translation dictionary I've found. Unfortunately, it's limited to English, Spanish, French Italian and Portugese. For other languages, you still need to rely on Babelfish.



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